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Job Description

Overview

The Sheet Metal Mechanic position at the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System involves constructing, installing, and repairing HVAC systems and other structures within the medical center.

Responsibilities

  • Perform complex sheet metal work including designing, constructing, and installing ductwork.
  • Develop patterns for items with irregular angles and curves.
  • Use complicated shop mathematics for irregular cuts and angles.
  • Independently develop plans and templates for constructing irregular items.
  • Evaluate structural damage and replace or install new systems.
  • Work with various metals including stainless steel, copper, and aluminum alloys.
  • Operate complex hand and power machines for sheet metal work.
  • Use advanced fastening methods for sheet metal assembly.
  • Accurately measure airflow and determine duct sizes.
  • Read blueprints and perform material takeoffs for ordering.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm
  • Position Description Title/PD#: Sheet Metal Mechanic/PD12680A
  • Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
  • Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
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How this job compares in Oklahoma City, OK

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 28% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Oklahoma — toward the top of a $23–$30/hr middle band drawn from 64 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma City, OK currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 115 other active welding openings from 69 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Oklahoma City, or widen the search to Oklahoma.

Veterans Health Administration currently has 3 other openings live in Oklahoma, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Alfa Laval (8), Hayden Industrial (5), and Chart Industries, Inc. (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Catoosa at $29/hr, Tulsa at $27/hr, and Claremore at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Sheet Metal Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.